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  • Southwest Airlines grounds 81 planes after emergency

    04/02/2011 9:16:29 AM PDT · by Paleo Conservative · 144 replies
    Reuters ^ | Sat Apr 2, 2011 10:57am EDT | David Schwartz
    (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines grounded 81 aircraft from its Boeing 737 fleet for inspection after a gaping hole in the fuselage forced one of its planes to make emergency landing in Arizona on Friday, the company said on Saturday. Southwest (LUV.N) and Boeing (BA.N) engineers will inspect the aircraft to try to determine the cause, Southwest said in a statement. Passengers heard a loud noise and suddenly saw a hole about mid-cabin. Southwest Airlines is working with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration on the ground in Arizona to determine the cause of a sudden drop...
  • UPDATE - Southwest Cancels 300 Flights After Emergency

    04/02/2011 12:50:50 PM PDT · by Yaelle · 52 replies
    Reuters ^ | 04/02/11 | Alex Dobuzinskis
    (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) said it expected to cancel 300 flights scheduled for Saturday to allow inspections of 79 aircraft from its Boeing 737 fleet, after one of its planes made an emergency landing with a gaping hole in the fuselage. Passengers aboard Southwest Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento on Friday heard a loud noise and the hole appeared suddenly at about mid cabin, forcing the pilot to land at a military base in Yuma, Arizona. [Read more at link]